RATING: KKKK Broken Beats From Unlikely Super group - The LOWDOWN: This week's obligatory NIN side-project finds programmer Atticus Ross enlisting...

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RATING: KKKK

Broken Beats From Unlikely Super group - The LOWDOWN: This week's obligatory NIN side-project finds programmer Atticus Ross enlisting Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato and Bad Religion/Epitaph man Brett Gurewitz to create something far spikier than scenester collaborations usually have the energy to muster. While still inhabiting the industrial sphere, Error are closer to Aphex Twin's sinister and brilliantly evil 'Come To daddy' than Ross' day job.

Fuelled by a palpably punk sense of nihilism, these five tracks bode well for Error's full-length debut which is due later in 2004.

BEST TRACK: 'Burn In Hell'

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RATING: 9/10 NIN, Bad Religion and Dillinger men team up for avant-garde noise project Error is collaboration between NIN and Tapeworm conspirator...

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RATING: 9/10

NIN, Bad Religion and Dillinger men team up for avant-garde noise project

Error is collaboration between NIN and Tapeworm conspirator Atticus Ross, Brett Guerwitz -- architect of Bad Religion and Epitaph Records -- and Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato. It was conceived through the frustration that the protagonists felt at much of the safe, radio-friendly pap, which has recently tried to sneak in under the punk banner; Error seeks to return to the days when punk was something to be scared of. The 'Error EP' scales a sheer rock-face of dark, demented, confrontational genius, which grinds down all punk templates, in favour of an unrelenting soundtrack made of the harsh industrial beats of a technology gone mad, bad and very dangerous to know. Expect to hear the brooding aggression of Skinny Puppy, the decayed digital dementia of Clint Mansell's Pi movie soundtrack and a more listenable analogue of the incendiary, distorted drum and bass metal of Alex Empire and ATR.

Rejoice: punk's industrial revolution has arrived.

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